Genome Statute and Legislation Database
The Genome Statute and Legislation Database is comprised of state statutes and bills introduced during the 2002-2024 U.S. state legislative sessions.
State | Primary Link | Topic(s) | Bill Status Sort descending | Summary |
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Tennessee | 2018 State Bills Tennessee 2018 SB 2029 | Privacy | Died | Requires a parent, legal guardian, or student, if the student is 18 years of age or older, to provide informed written consent before the collection of individual student biometric data, including DNA. Establishes additional protections for personally identifiable information, which includes biometric data, maintained by schools. 4/18/2018 Companion House bill substituted. |
Washington | 2020 State Bills Washington 2020 SB 6281 | Privacy | Died | Requires controller who determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data to obtain consent prior to processing sensitive data, including genetic data. Controllers must conduct an assessment of activities pertaining to the processing of sensitive data. Died. |
Connecticut | 2019 State Bills Connecticut 2019 HB 7262 | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits life insurance companies from requiring genetic testing or using genetic information in connection with life insurance policies and annuity contracts. Died. |
Illinois | 2012 State Bills Illinois 2012 HB 6248 | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | The Department of Healthcare and Family Services must authorize the provision of, and payment for, a baseline mammograms for women 35-39 and mammograms at certain intervals for women over 40. Women under 40 with risk factors such as positive genetic testing should receive mammograms as medical necessary. Measure failed. |
Maryland | 2013 State Bills Maryland 2013 SB 859 | Privacy | Died | Requires certain businesses, when destroying a customers records that contain personal or private information of the customer, to take specific steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information. Personal information is defined to include an individual's genetic print. Died. |
Massachusetts | 2018 State Bills Massachusetts 2018 H.2420 | Other Topics | Died | Prohibits a local or state administrative, legislative or regulatory body or instrumentality from engaging in a discriminatory land use practice based on genetic information. Died. |
Massachusetts | 2019 State Bills Massachusetts 2019 S.939 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Adds new section to unlawful employment practices statute. Prohibits any person whose business includes sponsoring, guaranteeing or granting funds or engaging in investment transactions from discriminating against any person in the sponsoring, guaranteeing or granting of funds or making available such funds, because of genetic information and other factors. 11/16/2020 Accompanied a study order, see S2953. Died. |
Mississippi | 2018 State Bills Mississippi 2018 SB 2406 | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Requires group or individual policies, contracts or certificates of health insurance issued or renewed to cover comprehensive ultrasound screening of an entire breast or breasts if a woman is believed to be at increased risk for breast cancer due to family history or prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing or other indications as determined by a woman's physician or advanced practice registered nurse. 1/30/2018 Died in committee. |
New Jersey | 2020 State Bills New Jersey 2020 A1170 | Privacy | Died | Makes DNA samples and genetic information resulting from DNA analysis property of the person sampled or analyzed. Died. |
New York | 2017 State Bills New York 2017 A1803 | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Requires accident and health insurance policies to cover the cost of genetic testing of persons with a family history of cancer. Coverage must include testing and any subsequent treatment based on the results of the test for people with a significant risk of contracting cancer. Died. |
Oklahoma | 2019 State Bills Oklahoma 2019 HB 2455 | Other Topics | Died | Prohibits unlawful housing discriminatory practices based on genetic information. Died. |
Virginia | Virginia HB 1077 | Parentage law | Died | Provides that |
California | 2020 State Bills California 2020 AB 3215 | Other Topics | Died | Establishes the Commission on the State of Hate. Requires the commission to advise the Legislature, the Governor, and state agencies on, among other things, policy recommendations to promote intersocial education designed to foster mutual respect and understanding among California�s diverse population. Appointees to the commission are comprised of experts in combating hate, intolerance, and discrimination on the basis of various factors such as genetic information. Died. |
Hawaii | 2013 State Bills Hawaii 2013 HB 540 | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | The board of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund must require every health benefits plan established or contracted to include lower deductibles and co-payments for non-smokers of tobacco and other persons engaged in low risk health behaviors that are designed, in compliance with applicable federal and state laws, to encourage preventative health care, promote wellness, and discourage medically unnecessary use of health care services; provided that the board consults with medical professionals to determine what should be included as low risk health behaviors. Genetic factors and pre-existing medical conditions may not be considered as a behavior when determining what constitutes low risk behavior. Died. |
Maine | 2017 State Bills Maine 2017 LD 1452 | Privacy | Died | The department of education, a school administrative unit or a state agency may not collect, store, transmit or process the certain information, including DNA, from a student without the written consent of a parent or guardian of a student or an eligible student unless otherwise required or authorized by statute or rule. Died. |
Maryland | 2021 State Bills Maryland 2021 SB 706 | Other Topics | Died | Alters the definition of "practice pharmacy" to include the ordering and administering of certain laboratory tests. Requires the State Board of Pharmacy, on or before January 1, 2022, to adopt regulations authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer laboratory tests, without a written, oral or electronically transmitted prescription from an authorized prescriber that measure biomarkers, including deoxyribonucleic acid. In the Senate - Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m. Died. |
Minnesota | 2017 State Bills Minnesota 2017 HF 887 | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | A managed care organization that contracts with the health commissioner cannot discriminate or use any policy that has the effect of discriminating against people on the basis of genetic information. Died. |
Nevada | 2007 State Bills Nevada 2007 AB 578 | Research | Died | This bill prescribes the requirements for surrogate decision makers to give informed consent for certain human subject research. Measure failed. |
New York | 2009 State Bills New York 2009 A8511 | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill creates the genetics advisory council. The council, if created, will study and make recommendations on various issues, including unfair discrimination by employers and insurers. Measure failed. |
New York | 2019 State Bills New York 2019 S4144 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits hiring parties from subjecting a model to harassment based on various factors, including predisposing genetic characteristics. Died. |
Texas | 2015 State Bills Texas 2015 HB 3582 | Privacy | Died | Creates a personal property right in a sample of genetic material and in the genetic information obtained as a result of a genetic test performed on an individual's sample. Died. |
West Virginia | 2019 State Bills West Virginia 2019 HB 2224 | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Requires insurance coverage of a comprehensive ultrasound screening of breast if a woman is believed to be at increased risk of cancer based on several factors, including positive genetic testing. Died. |
Alabama | 2016 State Bills Alabama 2016 SB 318 | Privacy | Died | Prohibits state agencies, local education agencies, or local education institutions from administering any student survey, assessment, analysis, evaluation, or similar instrument that solicits certain information about the student or the family of the student, including biometric records. Biometric records are defined to include a DNA sequence. Died. |
Delaware | 2019 State Bills Delaware 2019 SB 17 | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits discrimination based upon genetic characteristics and information in the issuance or renewal of disability and long term care insurance. Insurers also must provide notice if a genetic test is required. Died. |
Illinois | 2020 State Bills Illinois 2020 SB 3092 | Privacy | Died | Amends the Genetic Information privacy Act. Requires informed consent for a person or business to disclose an individual's genetic information to third parties specifically for marketing, advertising, or sales purposes. Died. |
Last updated: February 8, 2024